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Shards of Light Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$53k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Philanthropy$105kInternational$25kCivil Rights$5kYouth Development$1kHousing & Shelter$765Public Benefit$750Religion$518Arts & Culture$500
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $3k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$500
Median grant
7
States reached
$126k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF THE IMPJ$50,000
STARS THAT SHINE$1,000
FACING HISTORY IN OURSELVES$500
RESETTING THE TABLE$500
SINAI ASSISTED HOUSING FOUNDATION$500
YACHAD$265
RECONSTRUCTING JUDAISM$18
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 42% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%FACING HISTORY IN OURSELVES: $500 → 16%RECONSTRUCTING JUDAISM: $18 → 7%FRIENDS OF THE IMPJ: $5k → 14%RESETTING THE TABLE: $500 → 17%NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $5k → 14%STARS THAT SHINE: $1k → 9%TEMPLE NER TAMID: $500 → 16%THE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50k → 8%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $25k → 17%SINAI ASSISTED HOUSING FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%YACHAD: $265 → 8%YOUNG PEOPLE FOR PROGRESS: $250 → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
WV
MD
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…

International
2
Israel 21c

Through its news service and public programs, Israel 21c educates individuals and groups about comtemporary life in Israel providing news and information on the people of Israel, its culture and business and scientific achievements.

Education
3
American Israel Public Affairs Committee

To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.

International
4
Israel Team Advocates International Inc

Promote understanding and support for the people of israel

International
5
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
6
Jewish Electorate Institute

The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…

Civil Rights
7
Womens Foreign Policy Group Inc

Founded in 1995 wfpg works to expand the foreign policy dialogue across policital divides and generations and to support women at every stake of their careers. as champions of womens leadership we are proud of our role in expanding the…

International
8
National Jewish Policy Center

To conduct educational activities and to provide scholarly perspectives on foreign and domestic policies that impact the jewish community in the united states and the broader american public.

International
9
Momentum Unlimited Inc

We provide educational and transformative experiences with learning opportunities for jews of all backgrounds, to learn more about their heritage and how it impacts their lives.

Religion
10
Partners in Torah

Offering jewish adults a personal connection to judaism,fostering a sense of belonging to the greater jewishcommunity, and building bridges between jews of allbackgrounds. to date, over 74,000 men and women from 39countries have been…

Religion
11
The Israel Institute Inc

The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.

International
12
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yachad Inc; the most unlike its peers is Stars That Shine. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF THE IMPJ: $55,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE IMPJTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES: $5,000 · Other+2 more: $518 · OtherPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT…STARS THAT SHINE: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG PEOPLE FOR PROGRESS INC: $250 · Youth DevelopmentSINAI ASSISTED HOUSING FOUNDATION INC: $500 · Housing & ShelterYACHAD INC: $265 · Housing & ShelterRESETTING THE TABLE INC: $500 · Public BenefitFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $500 · Arts & Culture
Other$110,518Philanthropy$25,000Youth Development$1,250Housing & Shelter$765Public Benefit$500Arts & Culture$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTARS THAT SHINE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRESETTING THE TABLE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSINAI ASSISTED HOUSING FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYACHAD INC: $265 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG PEOPLE FOR PROGRESS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

National Philanthropic TrustPA8.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Shards of Light Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shards of Light Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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